The torso armour of Roman soldiers was the lorica hamata (mailarmour), the lorica squamata (scale armour) or the lorica segmentata (broadiron strips across the body and overlapping downwards fastened to internalleather straps; additional vertical plates protected the upper arms and READ MORE

Hippocrates was born around 460 BC in Cos, an island in Greece.According to Sonarus of Ephesus, Hippocrates was the son ofHeraclides, who was a physician and his mother Praxitela was thedaughter of Tizane. Sonarus writes that Hippocrates acquiredknowledge of medicine READ MORE